Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "American Reacts to 20 German words AMERICANS USE all the time!" video.

Reminds of this video I ran into once. This guy really gets annoyed with the number of inventions and discoveries and doesn't believe it. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qly9mDPh8oc&t=362s I'm Dutch and it seems pretty correct to me. But many Americans believe the car was invented there, better not tell them the Germans might have a claim on the airplane too.... I think they got that from the British, they have the habit of claiming inventions and discoveries as their own too just because they learned about them and renamed them in English.
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@hnorrstrom Yes, but from ancestry you tend to get things like 'stool', which I thought was of Dutch origin but nevermind. Than people anglify it or whatever language they appropriate the word in.
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I think this is a different thing. 'Angst' for example will probably have entered English from German psychologists writiing about it and then it gets used in English as a very specific term. You see in this video most German words have a more specific meaning in English. People tend to use foreign words for that reason, their own equivalent is too general. They won't call a mug a stone because they want to make it about beer specifically and have that German associaton. Amateur is just French for lover, but people needed a word for the non professional enthousiast so they took a French word to be more specific.
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@DSP16569 Yes, but the Dutch influenced American English much earlier through New Amsterdam/New York where there was quite a bit of drinking in bars. So that's why I assumed it didn't come from the German immigrants.
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